This was very tricky to get to work, but I was forced into changing to VirtualBox since VMWare Server 2.0.2 is being completely anoying on the server (crashing due to glibc).
OK so first of all make sure you have python26 installed on your server:
- rpm -Uvh http://yum.chrislea.com/centos/5/i386/chl-release-5-3.noarch.rpm rpm –import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CHL
- yum install python26 Django python26-devel.i386 python26-libs.i386 python26-setuptools-devel.noarch python26-setuptools.noarch python26-tools.i386 python-simplejson python26-simplejson
Then download virtualbox:
- wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.1.2/VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.2_56127_rhel5-1.i386.rpm
Now we install it:
- rpm -Uvh VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.2_56127_rhel5-1.i386.rpm
Once installed we go ahead and install the API:
Download the VirtualBox SDK from: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/vboxsdkdownload.html
- wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.1.2/VirtualBoxSDK-3.1.2-56127.zip
- unzip VirtualBoxSDK-3.1.2-56127.zip
- cd sdk/installer
- export VBOX_INSTALL_PATH=/usr/lib/virtualbox/
- python26 vboxapisetup.py install
Download VBoxWeb:
- yum install mod_dav_svn subversion
- svn checkout http://vboxweb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ vboxweb-read-only
- cd vboxweb-read-only
Run VBoxWeb:
- python26 VBoxWebSrv.py adduser username password
- python26 VBoxWebSrv.py
On a browser nagivate to http://ipaddress:8080
Login with the username and password you set on the previous line.
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May 5th, 2010 6:28 am
Tried your instructions, there are a few problems with it.
The CHL repo seems to be broken
rpm -Uvh http://yum.chrislea.com/centos/5/i386/chl-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
rpm –import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CHL
These commands both work, but when I do a search for python26 or something it cant find it.
If I look at yum repolist it shows the CHL repo enabled but it still cant install any of the python packages
and when you do
root@snap vboxweb-read-only]# python26 VBoxWebSrv.py adduser user password
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “VBoxWebSrv.py”, line 535, in
g_vboxManager = vboxapi.VirtualBoxManager(None, None)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vboxapi/__init__.py”, line 470, in __init__
exec “self.platform = Platform”+style+”(platparams)”
File “”, line 1, in
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vboxapi/__init__.py”, line 318, in __init__
import xpcom.vboxxpcom
File “/usr/lib/virtualbox/sdk/bindings/xpcom/python/xpcom/vboxxpcom.py”, line 51, in
raise Exception, “Cannot find VBoxPython module”
Exception: Cannot find VBoxPython module
which seems to be the problem everyone is having
any ideas?
May 5th, 2010 11:18 am
Do the rpm command in one line first.
If yum doesnt find the python26, then try and find the rpm’s on the internet and then install them manually.
Then follow the other steps.
But yeah if you dont have python26 installed then you willl get the error you posted here.
May 6th, 2010 3:55 am
Ok, So I downloaded the RPM’s induvidually from the CHL repo and installed them,
but still nae joy